To:CAMILLE HUYSMANS

Written:Written November 10, 1912Published:First published in 1963 in French inCahiers du Monde Russe et SoviétiqueNo. 1–2.

      First published in Russian in 1964 inCollected Works, Fifth (Russian) Ed., Vol. 48.

      Sent from Cracow to Brussels.

      Printed from the original verified against the text of the journal.

      Translated from the French.Source:Lenin
	  Collected Works,

      Progress Publishers,[1977],

      Moscow,Volume 43,

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DearComrade Huysmans,

Iam very grateful to you for your
communication.[1]We shall try to take steps to appoint delegates to
the Basle Congress.

OurParty’s representative in the committee to edit the draft
resolution will be named at the earliest possible date.

Withfraternal greetings,N. Lenin

P.S.I must submit to the C.C. of our Party a report on the last
session of the Bureau. To draw up the report I need some information. I
know very well that you are extremely busy, dear comrade, and would ask you
to give five or ten minutes of your time to Comrade Popov, who will call on
you. The French and German newspapers (Le Peuple, WienerArbeiter-Zeitung,Bremer Bürger-Zeitung,Leipziger
VolkszeitungandVorwärts) published very contradictory
information on the last session of the
I.S.B.[2]

P.P.S.I received the news of the election of deputies to the Fourth
Duma from Moscow Gubernia only today. I can now report thatall the
deputiesfrom the workers’ curia (Arbeiterkurie) areSocial-Democrats! Twelve Social-Democrats have already been
elected despite the most outrageous rigging of the elections.

Withfraternal greetings,N. Lenin

[1]Huysmanshad written Lenin on November 7, 1912, letting him know when
the Basle congress was to open and asking him toattend to the appointment of delegates; informing him of the demonstrations
expected to take place in the big European cities on November 17, 1912,
against the extension of the theatre of hostilities; asking him to agree to
speak at a meeting if invited to do so by any of the parties; informing him
of the composition of the resolution committee of the congress, and asking
that a representative be appointed to the committee.

[2]Areference to the meeting of the International Socialist Bureau held
in Brussels on October 28–29, 1912, which Lenin did not attend. The
meeting decided to call an extraordinary socialist congress. Russia was
represented by G. Plekhanov and I. Rubanovich. A special closed sitting was
held to discuss Russian affairs, but no official report of the sitting was
published. Lenin learnt of it from L. Martov’s article “The International
Bureau on Social-Democratic Unity”, published inLuchNo. 37,
October 28, 1912. Lenin replied to Martov in his article “Better Late Than
Never” (see present edition, Vol. 18, pp. 469–70).